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Question Regarding An Interpretation Of An Ayah In Surah Sajda
I’m referring to following part of the ayah:
اَللّٰہُ الَّذِیۡ خَلَقَ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الۡاَرۡضَ وَ مَا بَیۡنَہُمَا فِیۡ سِتَّۃِ اَیَّامٍ
While interpreting this ayah Ghamidi sahib has interpreted “اَیَّامٍ” as divine days. The question is why not humanly defined days? I mean Quran is revealed to guide humankind, so intuitively Quran should express measure of the time in humans context. For example, if I explaining something to someone, I better use the connotations which are familiar to that person so he can easily understand. Therefore, if we think intuitively the days Quran is referring to are humanly defined days. Please clear this confusion. Jazak-Allah
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Question Regarding An Interpretation Of An Ayah In Surah Sajda
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Because the Qur’an itself clarified that it is not humanly days:
…..But a day with your Lord is indeed like a thousand years by your counting. (Qur’an 22:47)
…….then it all ascends to Him on a Day whose length is a thousand years by your counting. (Qur’an 32:5)
……[Tell them that] the angels and the Spirit ascend towards Him in a day the measure of which [according to your calculation] is fifty thousand years. (Qur’an 70:4)
Secondly, it can’t be humanly days. Humanly days are measured in relation to the movement of sun, which at one point wasn’t even created until Allah created it. So a day is a measurement in reference to something, we just don’t know what reference Allah used for His Days but He has clarified that He didn’t used our reference (the sun) that came much later in time and was adopted by us also later in history.
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